[Haskell-cafe] Hugs

[Rustom Mody]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:57 AM, Johannes Waldmann <
johannes.waldmann at htwk-leipzig.de> wrote:

> > https://twitter.com/headinthebox/status/652834731806052352
>
> This mentions    and :: Foldable t => t Bool -> Bool
> as an example of "abstract nonsense".
>
>
I find it sad... that people like Erik Meijer, Mark Lentczer... (even Doug
McIllroy recently demonstrated that there are 2⁹⁹ dialects of haskell!!)
are not being heeded
And this complaint could be greatly alleviated with one little leaf drawn
from racket -- language-packs: teachpacks
<https://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/extending-drracket.html>
Along with the single lightweight directive #lang
<https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/Module_Syntax.html#%28part._hash-lang%29>

It may naturally be asked how is #lang different from ghc's language "-X"
options
A teachpack would be a bunch of coherent -X options maybe along with a
suitable prelude
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